Re: lynx-dev reverse search

From:

Sergei Pokrovsky

Subject:

Re: lynx-dev reverse search

Date:

29 Jul 2000 11:15:12 +0700

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>>>>> "David" == David Combs <address@hidden> skribis:
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David> Probably 99% of the users use ascii (does anyone have ANY
David> statistics on usage?) -- if so, the easy way out is to just
David> hook-in some existing regex-library.
Most users use M$ IE or NS; that's not an argument. Many people with
some specific needs use Lynx; for me the availability of Unicode on a
Unix platform is a major consideration.
...
David> But people all over the world have, for the last 40 years (at
David> least the first 35 of the 40) survived nicely using ascii
David> terminals, ascii OSs, etc.
It is not nice use ASCII terminal to render a Russian or even a
Spanish text. And even less so if you have to mix languages, as in a
dictionary.
David> And other than the blind, seems to me that the percentage of
David> people who want a non-gui browser is shrinking daily.
I am not blind, but I often call Lynx in my scripts to produce a flat
text from HTML.
--
Sergei
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